Erasure: Deaths & Counting

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Letter: Nick Moss on the charge of genocide made against Israel by South Africa at the international court of justice

By June 19, 2024, 37 396 people had been killed in the Gaza Strip since the attack by Hamas and the Israeli invasion in October, 2023, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, as reported by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.1 The Ministry's figures have been contested by the Israeli authorities, although they have been accepted as accurate by Israeli intelligence services,2 the UN, and WHO. These data are supported by independent analyses, comparing changes in the number of deaths of UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) staff with those reported by the Ministry,3 which found claims of data fabrication implausible.

The official toll represents roughly 2 percent of Gaza’s population killed by Israel.

Here's a closer look at the United Nations' breakdown of casualties. The overall total of more than 35,000 Palestinians killed since Oct. 7, based on Gaza Health Ministry figures, has not declined.

The study finds factors like diseases will lead to many more indirect deaths in the long run even if the war stops now.

The death toll of Israel’s genocide in Gaza is likely far higher than reported by health officials, by a margin of tens of thousands of deaths,

Results align with other efforts to count the number of people killed amid the ongoing conflict.

The death toll from the Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, which started on October 7, 2023, has surged to 71,384 martyrs, according to the health ministry on Saturday.

The death toll from the Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, which started on October 7, 2023, has surged to 71,795 martyrs, according to the health ministry on Sunday morning.